God made food; the devil the cooks.
JAMES JOYCEAnd then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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